Short Story Essays

At first, Dickens has started “Great Expectations” as a little entertaining short story. Quoting Dickens himself from an accompanying note to the first instalment “I have made the opening, I hope, in its general effect exceedingly droll. I have put a child & a good – natured foolish man, in …

Dear unfortunate reader, it appears that god has chosen you to undergo a lot of suffering today. Here is a story… a story about whom you ask? Words cannot begin to depict the thing… the immense strangeness that is ARPAN. I am awfully sorry that you have to read this, …

Choose one other story from the anthology which also deals with emotional relationships. Look at how the author presents the relationships and whether the relationships are similar or different. Look at the structure of the stories and make a comparison of how the authors present their stories. I have chosen …

(A) Summary : Chapter 1 is about when James Macfadden died and he left his bulk of money to his son Dougles. Unfortunately, Dougles’ brother-in-law, Authur Paget, had been killed in amotor accident some-where near Ipoh. He went to find Mr Noel Strachen , who is a lawyer and asked …

I have read five short stories by different authors, all the stories have been written in the twentieth century and I will be comparing all of the stories with each other. I will be comparing settings, themes, characters, moods, atmospheres and narrative techniques. I will also be saying if each …

” Neighbor Rosicky “, written in 1928 and collected in the volume Obscure Destinies in 1932, is generally considered one of Willa Cather’s most successful short stories. It is a character study of Anton Rosicky, a man who, facing the approach of death, reflects on the meaning and value of …

In this essay I will be comparing my devised performance of the “Cry Me a River” unit, preformed on 11th May 2006, with my scripted performance of “Find Me” written by Olwen Wymark, which was preformed on the 2nd October 2006. I will be comparing character, style, mood, design, music, …

The vendetta stories consist of three short stories that are set in Corsica, The Vendetta, A Corsican Bandit and Mateo Falcone. They were written in the 19th Century by Guy de Maupassant and Prosper Mrime. These stories feature revenge as the main theme, and from it one can learn many …

The story is set in suburban America in the 1970’es. The main character, who remains nameless throughout the whole story, hast just moved his whole bedroom out into the street, lamps plugged in and all. The time is backed by the appliances – the boy turns on the TV set …

Sheer, sheer, the white cliff rising, straight up from the sea. Up there, unless you leaned over, you could not see the waves break, but for all the distance, the thunder of the water came loud. The wind tearing from the sea, rushing from a clear, high sky brought the …